Maybe if you mean for gov who pays, but even then, in terms of health care budget, its still quite cheap, to the point that optimizing on price seems like the wrong thing to do right now.
Did that include increased taxation? Including bribes, inefficient bureaucracy and manufactures, their sales organizations and the point-of-care healthcare increasing their profits?
I mean,im in canada, and the non vaccinated take a lot of tax dollars when they end up in hospitals, so in terms of interventions it definitely makes sense from an ecconomic perspective.
The vaccines which nobody is taking and cost under $20 are worth pharma companies engaging in secret underhanded methods to hurt other vaccines (even though all their FDA filings and research are mostly public).
If you want to make claims regulated by the FDA, you have to hire all these FDA consultants, many of whom are former FDA employees. They don’t seem to do much IME. So there’s a serious revolving door problem worth investigating in the case of these vaccines, though I’m not sure that’s secret, underhanded, or necessarily hurting other vaccines.
Yes they have huge contracts but they also have to produce the vaccine! And the vaccine could be waaay more expensive given its value to the people who took it.
Merck stock (no vaccine) had the exact same return as Pfizer over the past 5 years.
Now Moderna is up 800%, so maybe look their way if you are concerned about a conspiracy.
Ever heard of the Freedom of Information Act? The Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency has sued the FDA so that they would release documents related to the review of the vaccines.
Not if you have to take them several times a year until the end of your life